Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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The Roman Civilian Settlement
In AD 71, the Ninth Legion of the Ro...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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A Learning City
York has always been a place of lear...
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An Independent City
For most of the Norman period York,...
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Life in the Abbey
St Mary's Abbey in York was Benedict...
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Medical Practice in York
Medieval York was a death trap. &nbs...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- Fishergate Bar
- Gold Arm Ring
- York's first historian: Francis Drake
- Is York Cursed?
- York in the fifteenth Century
- Monk Bar
- Margaret Clitherow
- Schools in Tudor and Stuart York
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street
- Sixties York
- Painting of 'Russian Icons'
- The Hospitium
- The Minster in the 19th Century
- Stonegate
- Crest of York St John College
- York and the Jacobite Rebellions
- Vikings and Christianity
- Cinema Comes to York